May Save Motorists Half Million Yearly Good Rosdi to Cot Operating Costs i Of Cars Traveling Hundred Billion Miles By E. E. Duffy American people are striking out for the open country in motor cars at the rate of more than a hundred billion miles a year. Their annual driving expense in fuel, oil and car upkeep totais around eleven billion dollars. The roads over which they travel are mainly in state highway systems, taking the country as a whole, that plete. Measured by well established tests are not more than one-fourth corn driving expense over roads not vet surfaced to the point where vehicle operating costs may be reduced to bedrock is approximately one cent a mile greater than on substantially surfaced roads. It is assumed that not more than one-Jhalf of the country's hundred billion, a year mileage is over surfac ed roads, that is, surfaced to the point of minimum operating costs. There fore, at least one-half the nation's ?11,000,000,000 driving expenses or $5,500,000,000, is yet to be cut at least ten per cent, which would mean a saving of approximately $550,000, 000 a year, or $5,500,000,000 in the next ten years. This measured in money, is the ultimate goal in road building ? to cut motor vehicle operating costs and at the same tome add to the life of car investment. In arriving at the nation's total annual mileage and driving expense, 5000 miles a year is estimated for each of the 22,000,000 motor vehicles now in service, at the established es timate of ten cents per mile, count ing all cost such as fuel, oil. upkeep, tire and car depreciation. These figures, seemingly prepos terous at first glance, are not far from the mark. The reduction of driving expense to the extent of more than $550,000,000 a year is not to 1 be considered within the range of j possibility in any short period of time j It may be taken, however, as an ul timate objective to which road build- I ing should come, and this astonishing f sum of highway power waste, as ex emplified in driving expense, should ! serve to emphasize the necessity for speeding ahead toward the surfacing of all main traveled arteries in the country. "When will the pressing need for modern road building close?" some one may ask. When will the people stop buying automobiles? When this last question is answer ed. there will be found an answer to the first. Last year the nation's new car investment reach ?4,000.000,000, or fcur time- as much as was spent or roads during the same period, and In a Bad Fix from INDIGESTION "I had suffered with indi gestion for 6 yearn," Bays Mr. H. C. Dove, R. F. D. 4, Chester. 8. C. "1 had gotten to the place where I could hardly eat a thing ? everything hurt me. I had smothering spella and fell off 20 pounds. I was in a bad fix. "I read of Black-Draught and decided to try it. I do not believe that I would have been living today had it not been for Biack-Draught. I had gotten to where I only ate milk and crackers, but after taking Black-Draught I began to eat and gradually got my appetite back. I gained in weight and felt better. I have not had a bad spell of indiges tion in ten months." Thedford's Black-Draught is prepared in a powder from medicinal roots and herb*. In use over 86 years. Sold everywhere. 25 cents. for Constipation. Indigestion. Biliousness niiiiiiiMiiniiiiiiliiiliiiiilii.liiillliiiiiiilc "Yes, Vv iiiei < ? * c -ck is rigai;. jL-uckies are best," says Paul Berlenbach Popular pugilist tcllt his manager, Benedict Sterns, that Lucky Strikes are the finest cigarettes. Jo Throat Irritation You, too, will find that LUCKY STRIKES give the greatest pleasure ? -Mild and Mellow, the finest cigarettes you ever smoked. Made of the choicest tobaccos, \ ' properly aged and blended with great . 'kill, and there is an V*ttra process? "ITS JOASTED" ? no **rshness, not a bit Willard Mack, Noted Author, Producer and ?ctor, writes: "Wc people of the theatre are , as a rule , extremists. This is the reflex action from overwrought nerves. When a man smokes forty cigarettes a day, as I do, he must be sure of his brand. I smoke Lucky Strikes because I have found they are soothing to the nerves and at the same time they cause no throat irritation . My voice is always in perfect condi tion and I am never troubled by any coughing which might be annoying to me in my work as factor." . ^ not all of that went on surfacing that ! will cut driving expense to a mini ! mum. With every new car wheeled out jn the highway, the nation's total driving expense increases, and there is undisputable evidence to show that the percentage of highway power waste is growing ?r than the per centage of road construction design ed to permanently cheek -uch waste. Again we sight the ultimate coal j .n road building ? the reduction of highway power waste by forcing the I ' road building job up to somewh | near an even basis with car buying. ! ' Road building should exceed car buy j in^r until the various state systems iare brought into such condition as to permanently cut driving costs. A Poor Job i A little boy slipped into the parlor and then eyed the visitor up and down. "Well, little man," said his fath ers friend. "What are you looking! j at me for?" "Daddy said you were a self-made man and I wonted to see what you looked like/* "Quite right, said the gratified gue*t. "But why did you make yourself like that for ? 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